Another related issue is that the casinos were fostering a debt problem by loaning far more than people could pay back. A supermarket clerk making $18,000 annually and no other significant assets was granted a loan of $300,000 from a casino.
The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, is a model of conflict for two players in game theory.
n. 1. (modifier) of or denoting theoretical research without regard to any future application of its result: a blue-sky project. vb, -skies, -skying or-skied. 2. to theorize (about something that may not lead to any practical application). adj.